Author Archives: Tony Brown, Staff Writer

BAXTER VILLAGE, S.C. – The first surprise for Mary Ludemann was that the remodeling job got the attention of Better Homes and Gardens’ Kitchen and Bath Makeovers in the first place. The second was that the kitchen chosen was not ...

CHARLOTTE – Residential contractors who go online to apply for Mecklenburg County building permits will have to change how they do it. Code Enforcement staffers who work the residential technical assistance center say the changes are small and in the ...

CHARLOTTE – Urban planner, author and Charlotte native Victor Dover will lead a discussion Tuesday about the revival in building – and rebuilding – neighborhoods based on streets that are designed to be walked, cycled and admired. The coauthor, with ...

Back in 1982, when Robin Williams was 30 and looked 20, he was in a movie called “The World According to Garp.” The film was based on a meandering 1978 novel that pretty much captured the zeitgeist of post-World War ...

YORK, S.C. – About 200 people crammed the 49-seat meeting chamber, listened in the hallway outside, or watched from outdoors through glass doors while a dozen of them spoke in protest of a proposed rock quarry near Clover, S.C. The ...

FORT MILL, S.C. – Don’t forget the homemade peach ice cream from Springs Farm PeachStand. When James Martin, vice president of Crescent Communities’ residential group, gets to going on about why the long-dormant town of Fort Mill is in the ...

CHARLOTTE – Used to be, not that long ago, that you could just call Dan Clodfelter. If the Democratic District 37 state senator from Charlotte didn’t pick up, he’d generally call back and take a reporter’s question. But now that ...

HUNTERSVILLE – Bellington, a single-family housing development that one developer struggled to get approved and that another developer then bought out, is ready and open for business a year later. The Charlotte division of Columbus, Ohio-based M/I Homes has begun ...

INDIAN TRAIL – The Town Council on Tuesday officially joined forces with local governments across the state in opposing pending legislation that seeks to limit municipalities and counties from imposing design and aesthetic standards on homebuilders. The council voted to ...

CHARLOTTE – Realtor Jonathan Osman tells it like he sees it. He does so on his blog, Real Estate News and Opinion, and he did it in person with On the Level. He’s new-media savvy, naming his website charlottehousehunter.com, after ...